IFD:DDSP

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Data, Devices, Services, People:
A Survey of Modern Web Architecture and Applications

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Instructor: Jason Reizner
Credits: 6 ECTS, 3 SWS
Capacity: max. 15 students
Language: English
Date: Fridays, 13:30-17:00
Location: Marienstr. 7b, Room 102

First Meeting: 23 October 2015, 13:30


Description

These days the web is everywhere: on your phone, in your car, on your cloud, in your mind. While the web may have started life as a humble application to facilitate the sharing of textual information across under-utilized digital networks, it enters its third decade as both a seemingly omnipresent technical infrastructure and unassailable sociocultural phenomenon. The web today is arguably the most significant force behind screen-based interaction in all the places and situations where it is most relevant. This module is centered on the concept of Web of Things as a central platform, wherein the web itself is no longer just an application, but an environment for interconnection and interaction between Things: namely data, devices, services and people. Participants will evaluate and employ contemporary strategies and methodologies for developing a web-connected device, object, installation, application or service.

Admission requirements

This is an introductory course with no technical pre-requisites. Concurrent enrollment in another IFD course offering is strongly encouraged.

Registration Procedure

Registration for Summer Semester 2015 is now closed.

Evaluation

Successful completion of the course is dependent on regular attendance, active participation and delivery of a relevant semester project.
The project is to be refined over the course of the semester and will be a evaluated on concept, development and execution based on the following rubric:

30% Corresponding Weekly Assignments
30% Midterm Presentation
40% Final Deliverable and Documentation

Eligible participants

MFA Medienkunst/-gestaltung, MFA Media Art and Design, MSc MediaArchitecture

Syllabus

23 October 2015
Course Introduction, Organization and Topic Areas
Assignment: Read through Dave Raggett's Slidedeck introducing the Web of Thing Framework
http://www.w3.org/2015/05/wot-framework.pdf


30 October 2015
An Abridged History of Networked Computing
Sources and Links from the Lecture
Assignment

6 November 2015


13 November 2015


20 November 2015


27 November 2015


4 December 2015


11 December 2015
Midterm Presentations

18 December 2015


8 January 2016


15 January 2016


22 January 2016


29 January 2016
Final Presentations

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